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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-40

Out-of-bounds array read in CERT_DecodeCertPackage

Announced
April 2, 2013
Reporter
Ambroz Bizjak
Impact
Moderate
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
Fixed in
  • Firefox 20
  • Firefox ESR 17.0.5
  • SeaMonkey 2.17
  • Thunderbird 17.0.5
  • Thunderbird ESR 17.0.5

Description

Mozilla community member Ambroz Bizjak reported an out-of-bounds array read in the CERT_DecodeCertPackage function of the Network Security Services (NSS) libary when decoding a certificate. When this occurs, it will lead to memory corruption and a non-exploitable crash.

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